List of terrorist incidents, 1991
This is a timeline of incidents in 1991 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).
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January 6: A bomb kills three and wounds seven in La Dorada, Caldas. No group claims responsibility.[1]
March 2: At least 19 people, including Sri Lanka's Deputy Defence Minister, Ranjan Wijeratne killed in an LTTE car bomb explosion in Colombo. A further 73 people injured.[2]- May 13: Nine police officers die while deactivating a bomb left behind by leftist guerillas.[3]
May 21: Former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi assassinated in a bomb blast believed to be the work of Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists belonging to the LTTE.[4] This is also the first time that the suicide vest is used by any terrorist group.
May 30: A train traveling from Moscow to Baku explodes near Karvin-Yurt station between Gudermes and Makhachkala in Dagestan, Russia. Eleven people die and eight are injured.[5]- October 15: LTTE cadres attacked a Muslim village and shot and hacked to death 182 civilians (171 of them were Muslims), twelve policemen and eight soldiers; 83 others were injured.[6]
- October 18: Rudrapur bombings: Two time bomb blast, when people watching a Hindu pageant of Ramila, Rudrapur, Uttar Pradesh, India, which blame on Sikh separatist militant. Killing at least 41 and injuring 140 people.[7]
See also
References
- ↑ The Chicago Sun-Times, January 7, 1991, Page 58
- ↑ BBC News: "On This Day" March 2, 1991: Sri Lankan hardliner among 19 killed in blast
- ↑ San Jose Mercury News, May 14, 1991, Page 5A
- ↑ BBC News: Timeline of the Tamil conflict, September 4, 2000
- ↑ Nezavisimiya Gazeta via Russkiy Zhurnal (in Russian), May 29, 2001
- ↑ Sturcke, James (2003-11-14). "Sri Lanka chronology". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 2015-08-16.
- ↑ "2 Bombs Kill 41 and Injure 140 in India". New York Times. 18 October 1991. Retrieved 18 August 2011.
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